Colt Brings Back the Anaconda

[Jeff Higgins]

Good news for Colt fans, good news for .44 magnum fans. Even better news is that Hickok appears to like it. Granted, this by no means means that they are actually available right now, but maybe someday...

[onewhippedpuppy]

Nice! I’ve felt like this was a no brainer for a long time!

[flatbutt]

IF they can make it w/out screwing it up.

[cassisrot]

Where are Colts manufactured these days?

[Jeff Higgins]

Hartford, Connecticut. Just not in the same building anymore.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

IF they can make it w/out screwing it up.

Their new ownership should help with that.

[GH85Carrera]

I had heard there were lots of "lack of quality" issues with the new Colt Python. Is the Anaconda going to be done like it should be? Is the Python production back to a top notch product we all expected?

[Por_sha911]

It shoots some really big boolitts

[Jeff Higgins]

While most of you know I'm a die-hard Colt fanboy, I guess their double actions have never really done it for me. I have exactly one - a late '70's manufacture 6" blued Python. Yes, the finish is superb, the action is the smoothest I've ever felt, and it's as accurate as anything I own. Ergonomically, though, just the way the cylinder latch works, the way the trigger cocking mode "stacks", and for me at least, its way too muzzle heavy feel - it just doesn't balance well. Maybe the 4" (or new Canada friendly 4 1/4") would be better.

Maybe instead of these reintroductions, they should have come back with re-engineered double actions. They had to tool up from scratch anyway - why not bring out something vastly improved, something that addresses all of their issues? Instead we get a now 120 year old design rehashed. So, yeah, kind of big news that they are doing this, but I think they can do better. Maybe, under CZ, they will finally start introducing something truly new and ground breaking.

As long as they leave the Single Action alone...

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I had heard there were lots of "lack of quality" issues with the new Colt Python. Is the Anaconda going to be done like it should be? Is the Python production back to a top notch product we all expected?

https://www.fieldandstream.com/story/guns/is-there-really-a-recall-on-the-colt-python/

[jyl]

I am happy to see Colt still around and making guns in America, and CZ is a heck of a gun company and a far better owner than some vulture private equity fund. I hope Colt will ultimately achieve bigger things than revisiting its past. This company could have been the American equivalent of FN.

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Maybe instead of these reintroductions, they should have come back with re-engineered double actions. They had to tool up from scratch anyway - why not bring out something vastly improved, something that addresses all of their issues?

Because they get far more marketing mileage by reissuing something everyone knows about. Plus anyone who remembers the good old days of Colt will say "I wanted an Anaconda back then but never got it but now, I can get one."

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Because they get far more marketing mileage by reissuing something everyone knows about. Plus anyone who remembers the good old days of Colt will say "I wanted an Anaconda back then but never got it but now, I can get one."

Oh, I know, especially in this day and age, selling to aging boomers. Just look at the Mustang, Camero, and Challenger.

That said, look at how vastly improved those reintroductions are over their namesakes. Granted, it would be impossible under today's law to build and sell a '67 Camero, and firearms suffer no such regulation.

So, I have to wonder - had Colt decided to introduce a markedly improved revolver and call it a "Python", or an "Anaconda", what their reception would have been. They did make some improvements, so they did take some license, but I wonder just how far they could have gone. Shooters are a tough bunch. Could have been anything from "wow, that's a much better, more modern Python" to "that's not a Python".

[Tervuren]

Jeff, I would prefer a different name for a different gun.
Makes buying and shopping confusing to have a different product but the same name.

[Jeff Higgins]

Yet we readily accept that in automobiles - they change, or "evolve", every year. Kind of eagerly anticipate it, really. Apples and oranges, I know, but I find our different expectations, based on the nature of the product, rather interesting. Firearms are probably the one thing most beholden to, and restrained by, tradition. Which, in some cases, is a good thing. But it can hold them back.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I wasn’t around during the heyday of Colt but still feel the allure of the Anaconda and Python. To me I can’t afford an old one but I can afford a new one and that is very appealing.

[jyl]

This brings up an interesting question. If you were Colt and had the budget and desire to improve the Python or Anaconda, or indeed develop a whole new and much better revolver, what would you do?

Revolvers seem like an extremely refined and matured product. I struggle to think of how one would make them much better. Maybe I’m not imaginative enough?

[tabs]

manurhin mr 73

https://www.beretta.com/en-us/manurhin-mr73-sport-5-25/

[tabs]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I wasn’t around during the heyday of Colt but still feel the allure of the Anaconda and Python. To me I can’t afford an old one but I can afford a new one and that is very appealing.

1900 to 1940.

[KFC911]

Now bring back the Rattler ... for those of you who don't have one of the finest .22 revolvers ever made !